51 entries categorized "Television"

23 September 2006

We were both invited on Cédric Ingrand's show 'plein écran' on the French news channel LCI for a 2*15 min show to talk about user generated content and monetization.
Oleg Tscheltzoff, founder of CitizenBay was also there, along with Virginie Robert, the famous high-tech journalist from Les Echos Innovation.
The show will air on september 30th, and will be available as a podcast.
Track the news here: http://blog-high-tech.lci.fr/

26 August 2006

A couple of weeks ago, Ivan and I went to the Montparnasse area in Paris to meet with the team of gaspanik.tv: David, Fred et Julien.

They've built their own studio, where just by changing angles, and moving the furniture around, they create a number of new shows that they stream live on the web everyday. Indeed, they've discovered that editing online content is tiresome, and that live stuff is more fun.

In the backstage is Julien who is a jack-of-all-trades: he's coded all the tools in house (they started only 3 months ago, talk about barriers to entry in this market), and does all the real-time production, as well as coding a few games.
David is the guy who hosts the shows every night (the "CEO"), and Fred hosts or co-hosts a number of different shows.

Ivan and I "hijacked" the show for one hour one night, and talked a lot about entrepreneurship, about how to create your own company, etc. Unfortunately, David said that he there was a break-in during the night, and the burglars took a lot of equipment away, including the hard disk with the show. So it never went public.
As usual, I always carry my phone, and interviewed David live during his show. This is the only segment left from the show :(

Just before the 19h show, there was a 30 min show on games, hosted by Fred. Here's the backstage:

Finally, if you are interested in working with gaspanik.tv's technology, I'm afraid he's signed an exclusive deal with someone on the market already (not us :).

19 June 2006

I received an invitation last week to come and see the launch of le.buzz, the online video / blog / audio / music service that french TV channel TF1 should be launching later this month. From what I’ve read here and there, the aim is to build a similar service to MySpace for the young French audience, with a potential extension to broadcast TV, in a manner similar to current.tv.

There’s an alpha version up on http://buzz.confidentielone.com/. The site is nice, although a bit too crowded maybe for my eye (but MySpace is even messier), nice pastel colors, and lots of features such as IM and Skype integration, and integration of sound and pix on the site. Good job on the part of DailyMotion, the selected technical partner; congrats to Ben and Olivier. All the rest however is very similar to what they already do on their original site.

Crowded market indeed for these video destination sites and online tools: we overheard in the Valley last week that Eyespot was about to close a $5m round with a tier-1 VC, and that Grouper got a $10m series-C round with a $30m pre-money valuation… And that was among all the other video companies present at under the radar who are hoping to make it under the sun…

23 March 2006

I was invited to talk about podcasting and videoblogging along with Bertrand Lenôtre of Podemus.com today on French news television LCI.

It will air several times over the weekend, in the "Plein Ecran" program, and will be available in streaming on the web as well. (can anyone tape it for me ?)

I'll be posting a couple of videos later tonight with Bertrand, and our hosts, Cédric Ingrand of LCI, and Virginie Robert of the great French economic newspaper, Les Echos, in the weekly Innovation supplement.

The show is airing in 2 hours on France2 at 13h50. I haven’t seen it yet, so I can expect it to be either heavily edited and project a distorted OR show a true image of what I was doing. It’s a story on the Bonaldi show today.